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Photos: Celebrating colourful Hindu Lathmar Holi festival

Before the colourful Hindu festival of Holi begins, the people of Barsana in Uttar Pradesh celebrate their own version of the holiday, known as Lathmar Holi.

An Indian man from Nandgaon village, left, greets a villager from Barsana, right, as a woman from village Nandgaon waits with a wooden stick during the Lathmar Holy festival in the legendary hometown of Lord Krishna in Nandgaon 120 kilometres from New Delhi, India. According to a tradition which has its roots in Hindu mythology, men from nearby Barsana village are soaked in coloured water by men and beaten with sticks by women as they arrive at Nandgaon, believed to be Lord Krishna's village.